Boardwalk, The Cage, Countdown - all designed for a different style of play than many are used to. Very very good for game modes like King of the Hill, Infection, Oddball and DMR Slayer. They're designed to have choke points but encourage movement to avoid being caught out, and are very open plan.

the counter to sniper is not being bad, there are at least 4 different routes you can take to the top or bottom of the map completely out of sight from the sniper. but everybody always seems to come up the middle. or along the elevated walkway.

CaptainQuint wrote:
That's highlights the design flaws of Boardwalk perfectly: the counter to sniper is sniper.

It's exactly the same thing when faced with an entire team of AL players - the only counter, more often than not, becomes AL.

Bad design.

The counter to sniper on Boardwalk is to not walk about the middle of the map. There are enough corridors, elevation shifts, layers and power weapons to make the sniper only truly effective if everyone's dicking about on the slope, or in the hands of a master - which is true for any map.

It's not nonsense if someone is unbelievably good with the sniper - I've seen people dominate on every single map with it.

For the mortals, however, you have more of a point - but I wasn't contesting that with that particular comment.

Halo 4 will be tweaked, surely - there are still on-map power weapons (I wonder if there are still basic weapons on map also? I.e. spikers lying around. Lolspikers), and weapon drops are only in Infinity Slayer.

Isn't the Sprint module for Spartan armour basically disengaging several safety protocols for a short stint? I'm sure I read that somewhere. So it'd make sense that such an override might make aiming harder when the suit is focused on forward movement. Unless I just made that up in a dream or something, which is possible.

Please someone explain something to me. I have ordered the collectors edition but the only reason was for the free maps packs. But Amazon are now doing a 'seasons pass'for the map packs. If I buy the vanilla version of Halo 4 and then the seasons pass its cheaper.

As I dont want the crappy film with the collectors edition does this seasons pass give all the maps for free or what.